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• These are the cheapest and most expensive areas to rent a room in London right now

  18-07-2020 11:08 via metro.co.uk
  
  Knightsbridge remains one of the most expensive places to rent or buy property (Picture: Getty Images)With news that London rent prices have dropped in lockdown, we reckon it’s time to take an updated look at the cheapest areas to rent in the UK’s capital city… and the most expensive, because it’s both fun and painful to look at fancy places we’d never be able to afford.
  SpareRoom has just released its quarterly rental index, which along with revealing that London&
  
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• Inside Simon Cowell’s transformation as he claims to do 1,000 push ups a day

  11-12-2025 14:16 via metro.co.uk
  Simon Cowell is taking his health seriously (Picture: Dominic Lipinski/Getty Images)Simon Cowell has revealed all in a chaotically candid new interview, discussing his physical transformation in depth.From Botox to Cuban heels, the X Factor judge shared how he’s dramatically changed his appearance over the past few years after feeling ‘puffy’.He’s presenting a new trimmer image after losing three stone, ready for new Netflix series, The Next Act, which has just dropped i
  
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• 'Exceptional' Army Captain in dock for defending his girlfriend by tackling man who groped her at Army Christmas bash

  11-12-2025 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Captain Alexander Caine 'lunged' at the Army party guest after his partner told him that the man squeezed her bottom, a military court heard.
  
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• Jailed female shoplifter is banned from wearing wigs after using the hairpiece as a disguise during crime spree

  11-12-2025 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rachael Cole, 44, has been jailed for 36 weeks for stealing £964 worth of goods from shops in Hook and Liphook, Hampshire, between 10 November and 1 December.
  
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• Sam rushed to hospital after violent fight in BBC iPlayer early release

  11-12-2025 14:07 via metro.co.uk
  Will Sam finally get on the straight and narrow? (Picture: BBC)EastEnders fans are in for an emotional and explosive episode tonight as Sam Mitchell (Kim Medcalf) faces a brutal confrontation, a heartbreaking confession, and a sudden hospital dash after her cancer struggle continues to come to light.After weeks of secrecy and spiralling behaviour, Sam’s world collapses when Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), Ricky Branning (Frankie Day) and Julie Bates (Karen Henthorn) confront her over her
  
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• Grass verge outside home in 'highly coveted' neighbourhood goes up for auction...for £9,500

  11-12-2025 14:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The baffling strip of land, a 225m² patch of grass, runs directly outside a privately owned home in one of Poole's most desirable postcodes on Bullfinch Close in Dorset.
  
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• Jennifer Lopez gives glimpse inside $52 million mansion with Christmas video

  11-12-2025 14:04 via metro.co.uk
  With just over two weeks to go until Christmas it’s no surprise to see celebrities joining in the festive fun. Sticking up the decorations, wrapping gifts — all the things that prove when it comes to Christmas they’re basically just like us. Well, apart from the fact they do it in multi-million dollar mansions, of course. One big name who’s been showing off their Christmas preparations is Jennifer Lopez, and in doing so she offered us a glimpse inside her palatial Bel Ai
  
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• Heavily pregnant woman's horror final moments before 'mum stole tot from womb while having affair with baby dad'

  11-12-2025 14:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING, GRAPHIC DETAILS: A 22-year-old and her unborn child allegedly suffered horrific torture and violence at the hands of the one person she should have been able to trust
  
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• BREAKING: NATO urges 'prepare for war like our grandparents saw' in chilling WW3 warning

  11-12-2025 14:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
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• NHS prescription alert to anyone taking the pill, diabetes medicine or inhalers

  11-12-2025 14:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  People on the common medication are being issued an alert by a doctor
  
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• Famous family of twisted rapist Tom Silvagni have FLED Melbourne after he was unmasked - as his high-profile parents try to escape his sickening shame

  11-12-2025 14:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It's been rumoured the famous family of convicted rapist Tom Silvagni, 23, has already moved interstate in a drastic bid to avoid the sex crime scandal fallout.
  
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• These M&S cashmere trousers sold out in minutes last year – but they’re back and cosier than ever

  11-12-2025 14:00 via metro.co.uk
  You’ll never look back, once you own these super soft and warm trousers. (Picture: Metro/M&S/Getty)
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  When winter hits, there’s nothing better than cashmere. It’s lightweight, warm, soft against the skin, and keeps you cosy without feeling bulky.Plus, the natural material means you won’t get stinky no matter
  
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• The Game Awards 2025 preview – all confirmed games and rumours

  11-12-2025 14:00 via metro.co.uk
  The Game Awards 2025 looks like it could be an all-timer (The Game Awards)Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Total War, Star Wars, and Half-Life 3 are all rumoured for this year’s The Game Awards event, but which games are actually going to be there?The longest night in gaming has come around again but while The Game Awards can be hit or miss, depending on what new games are unveiled, this year is looking to be a particularly good one. That’s because, while the three hour event is themed a
  
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• Labour ministers struggle to defend Keir Starmer's U-turn on the House of Lords as he stuffs it with even more peers - despite once calling an unelected chamber 'indefensible'

  11-12-2025 14:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In his latest batch of appointments to the Lords, Sir Keir announced a fresh list of 25 Labour peerages as he gave jobs for life to cronies and ex-advisers.
  
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• Interpreter breaks down in tears translating Ukrainian boy reliving last moments with his mum

  11-12-2025 14:00 via metro.co.uk
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next PageA translator in the European Parliament began weeping while recounting the story of an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy whose mum died in a Russian missile strike.
  Roman Oleksiv was just seven when he and his mother went for a medical checkup at Vinnytsya, far from the frontlines of the war, on July 14, 2022.A Russian warship in the Black Sea fired three cruise mis
  
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• Jose Mourinho calls out Antonio Conte ‘excuse’ after Benfica’s win over Napoli

  11-12-2025 13:58 via metro.co.uk
  Jose Mourinho masterminded Benfica’s victory over Napoli on Wednesday night (Picture: CBS Sports)Jose Mourinho has called out Antonio Conte for an ‘excuse’ after Benfica’s impressive Champions League win over Napoli on Wednesday.It was a battle between two former Premier League managers at the Estadio da Luz with Mourinho’s Benfica side winning the match 2-0.Richard Rios gave Benfica the lead and Leandro Barreiro scored after the break as Italian club Napoli were b
  
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• The VERY harrowing scene inside the house of horror where a mother and daughter were found dead - and the disturbing way their bodies were discovered

  11-12-2025 13:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Despina Ganakas, 82, and her daughter Annmarie, 61, were discovered inside a residence on Haughton Parade at Rosanna, in Melbourne 's northeast, about 11.20am on Tuesday
  
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• Motorbike gang stabbed man to death in 'targeted execution' in quaint Surrey village as pub staff desperately tried to save his life

  11-12-2025 13:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Detectives are continuing to investigate the murder of a man in his 20s who was stabbed to death outside a pub in a Surrey village.
  
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• Mass poisoning on train with 52 casualties and children fighting for their lives

  11-12-2025 13:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dozens of people have suffered carbon monoxide poisoning on a train in Kazakhstan - this is a breaking story
  
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• Controversial Christmas film people either love or hate

  11-12-2025 13:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There's no shortage of Christmas films to enjoy this festive season, whether it's Love Actually, Elf, The Holiday or Die Hard, but one recent Netflix addition has rubbed some people the wrong way
  
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• Gavin Newsom reveals the awkward text Kamala Harris sent to him about her book as they circle each other ahead of 2028

  11-12-2025 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  California Governor Gavin Newsom quickly endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democrats' 2024 nominee when President Joe Biden left the race in July of last year.
  
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• Last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots written hours before she was beheaded for treason by Elizabeth I is to go on display

  11-12-2025 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mary wrote to her brother-in-law King Henri III of France at 2am on Wednesday February 8, 1587, just six hours before she was put to death for treason.
  
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• When Lily, 14, started feeling unwell, doctors brushed it off as 'growing up. Then came a life-changing diagnosis

  11-12-2025 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Perth mum whose teenage daughter has shared the warning signs doctors initially dismissed as signs of 'growing up' before she was diagnosed with a life-altering illness.
  
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• Major UK supermarket rolls out nationwide service making Amazon returns easier than ever

  11-12-2025 13:35 via metro.co.uk
  Morrisons is rolling out the Amazon parcel returns service nationwide in 2026 (Picture: Getty Images)Returning a parcel usually comes with a fair amount of faff, from getting yourself to the Post Office to remembering to package it up before the curfew.
  Is it any wonder two thirds of men have kept unwanted items because they ‘can’t be bothered’ to go through it all?Now though, Morrisons has launched a new service to take the stress out of the process, partnering with Amazon to
  
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• Are we about to revisit Brexit, again?

  11-12-2025 13:34 via metro.co.uk
  Just when we thought we had heard the last of it… (Picture: Getty)Read more from Craig Munro in Metro’s politics newsletter Alright Gov? which delivers exclusive analysis and more to your inbox every week.Iron your mini Union Jack and get practicing your robot dance moves to Abba – we’re heading back to the good old days of Brexit!It turns out three and a half years wasn’t enough time to spend debating the details of the UK’s relationship
  
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• Rebecca Park: Five grim new details in missing pregnant woman's murder

  11-12-2025 13:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Rebecca Park, 22, was 38 weeks pregnant when she was reported missing, with her body found several weeks later with horrific injuries and her abdomen cut open
  
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• The budding artist with his first ever exhibition - at the age of 100

  11-12-2025 13:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Co-op chief exec David Hughes MBE took up the brush and easel 40 years ago. Now his work has gone on display just as he is about to reach his milestone birthday
  
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• Eurovision looks doomed after its latest Israel controversy

  11-12-2025 13:31 via metro.co.uk
  I subscribe to its founding values – peace through culture and European unity (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Yesterday, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), organisers of Eurovision, decided that, despite opposition, Israel is in for the 2026 song contest in Vienna. Within minutes Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Slovenia said that, as a result, they were boycotting the competition.As a huge fan, I am feeling completely lost. I know that sounds dramatic, but Eurovision isn&rsquo
  
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• Failed asylum seeker convicted of raping woman in her own home after his crying victim made secret recording of attack

  11-12-2025 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chrey Callender, an hotel migrant from Trinidad, forced himself on the young woman after turning up drunk at her home at the end of a night out.
  
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• Burger King announces plans to open another 30 restaurants a year in the UK

  11-12-2025 13:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Burger King to open a wave of new company-run sites in the UK as it also announced a rise in annual profits and sales
  
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